MotoGP, at Le Mans pole for Bagnaia ahead of Marc Marquez
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LE MANS – Bagnaia’s pole at Le Mans is worth double, because in the last lap the world champion accelerates like crazy in the second part of the circuit and snatches the best time from that quarrelsome, unpleasant, very strong champion Marc Marquez. The Ducati rider finished with a dazzling 1’30″705, ahead of the Honda Cannibal by 58 thousandths, who crossed the finish line and congratulated his rival. In a few hours in the sprint race, and tomorrow at 2pm in the French gp, Pecco will start ahead of all: the front row is completed by another Ducati rider, Marini, who rides for the Mooney Vr46.
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Ducati smiles once again, while Aprilia curses the bad luck: Vinales was in the lead, when he left the pits his RS-GP had engine trouble, the Catalan returned pushing the bike but the other wasn’t ready. So he has to settle for the second row, with the 6th final time trial. His teammate, Aleix Espargarò, crashed at turn 1: he did no better than the 11th time, a disappointing fourth row for him. The KTMs defended themselves, with Miller – who loves the Bugatti Circuit like few others – in 4th place ahead of Martin’s Pramac-registered GP23. Third row all Ducati: Bezzecchi is 7th, ahead of Alex Marquez and Zarco. The home boy, Quartararo, failed sensationally in Q2, and despite a good pace he is unable to be effective on the flying lap: he will start from the fifth row together with Nakagani and Di Giannantonio, in the sixth there are two Hondas (Mir, Rins) and in half a Morbidelli who continues to suffer with the Yamaha. Petrucci (19th) with Enea Bastianini’s official Ducati was behind Savadori and Folger,
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Pecco confesses: “This morning it wasn’t easy”
Bagnaia celebrates but not too much, because he admits that things weren’t going in the best way this morning: “It was the most difficult start to the weekend in my MotoGP career. Not so much for a matter of feeling or speed, but for other things: however we managed to resolve (almost) everything quickly. The setting penalizes me a bit in the first sector of the track, then everything goes well. Let’s hope we’ll be competitive”.
Marquez smiles: “I’m making progress”
On his return after the Portimao accident, Marc Marquez had not ridden his Honda for 45 days. Yesterday he rehearsed, today they’re back and going like a rocket. “I’m very happy, from yesterday to today I took a big step forward on my own. Despite the crashes. After a long time without riding I didn’t have good sensations, but today everything was different. I was doing well with both tyres, we made great progress “The new Kalex chassis is perhaps better, but Rins (who finished 18th, ed.) also uses it. Tomorrow we’ll do everything to stay in front, but the Ducatis still seem unbeatable in braking.”
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